Commiunism

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[–] Commiunism@lemmy.wtf 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's a place created as a home for jews pretty much by antisemites, with the main idea being "we're okay with jews but only if they're not in our country".

There's a lot of fascinating history about the creation of Israel by antisemites that you can find, but the gist is that zionism and antisemitism often go hand in hand, and it seems this has not really changed.

[–] Commiunism@lemmy.wtf -1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

So, a couple weeks ago Biden was "feeling comfortable" with a ceasefire, but now it seems that he's comfortable with escalating it by sending american troops. Very cool!

[–] Commiunism@lemmy.wtf 37 points 4 days ago (5 children)

We live in times where making up bullshit is consequence free, even if you get called out on it. People seem to value if you can speak well more than if you're speaking the truth.

But hey, it's free speech in the marketplace of ideas, so maybe it's actually a good thing.

[–] Commiunism@lemmy.wtf 20 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Yeah, that's what you get with smaller communities, you tend to see the same people over and over.

[–] Commiunism@lemmy.wtf 7 points 5 days ago

I'm European, and my relatives often buy into and bring up the US crackhead conspiracy theories they saw on Facebook and from coworkers.

I was having an argument the other day concerning things like the weather machine conspiracy theory, chemtrails, and a bunch of shit about how the war in Ukraine is made up to steal money and how Zelenskiy was trying to abandon his country and flee because he's a coward or whatever. A lot of US and Russian brainrot makes its way here I suppose.

[–] Commiunism@lemmy.wtf 26 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Hey, don't rewrite history - twitter was always notoriously bad, under Elon it surely got even worse though.

[–] Commiunism@lemmy.wtf 9 points 1 week ago

This is such a weird phenomena, but also a sad one. I'm assuming she does enjoy partying with drag queens but is so ashamed about it that she decides to compensate by rallying against them, sort of like how staunch anti-gay politicians are often caught in gay acts.

Or maybe it was just some drunken lapse of her """moral beliefs""", can't really tell.

[–] Commiunism@lemmy.wtf 84 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

I've read The Guardian article about the situation, and what stuck out to me was this:

The US president, Joe Biden, said he was aware of Israel’s plans to launch an operation into Lebanon as he urged against such a move. “I’m more aware than you might know and I’m comfortable with them stopping,” he told reporters at the White House. “We should have a ceasefire now.”

Thank you Biden, just wag your finger and keep feeling "comfortable with them stopping", that is ought to give you some moral victory points which is all that matters (and not thousands of civilians being killed by Israel that's funded by US).

[–] Commiunism@lemmy.wtf 14 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Yeah, though there's also the phenomena of older folks generally being more against change and clinging in the past more, the idea being that you have less future to look forward to (since you're closer to death than your birth) so instead you look towards the past and become nostalgic about it.

[–] Commiunism@lemmy.wtf 4 points 2 weeks ago

Not surprising, white nationalist movements were always there but only somewhat recently they stopped using extreme rhetoric in order to get more supporters, and it's super effective. Nowadays you have even mildly exclusionary people who wouldn't have supported white nationalists spout anti-immigration nonsense online and irl, voting for the far-right thinking they're solving some issue that doesn't really exist in reality and is massively overblown.

The world is going back to authoritarianism.

[–] Commiunism@lemmy.wtf 32 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

The resolutions are not likely to pass; even if they did pass the heavily pro-Israel Congress, they would likely be vetoed by President Joe Biden, who has been insistent on sending weapons to Israel with no strings attached.

Yeah, this is an absolute shame. He tried doing something similar shortly after the genocide had started, but everyone else currently in power just shut him down almost unanimously.

If politics and getting into power wasn't 90% based on your wealth and connections, maybe US could have more people like Bernie trying to actually do good rather than trying to enrich or empower themselves.

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